“All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.”
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Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
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